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Letters In The Dirt

from Letters In The Dirt by Chuck Brodsky

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I wrote this for my dad, who taught me to always root for the home team. Richie Allen used to get booed by the Philadelphia fans, and he responded by writing words in the dirt around first base. I was little kid then. He's my favorite player of all-time.

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Me & you, we never booed Richie Allen - I never understood why people did
He hit a homer every time he stepped up to the plate - that’s what I remember as a kid
Richie in the field out there by first base - the target of some mighty foul words
With his shoes he’d scrawl between the pitched - “B-O-O” in great big letters in the dirt

Philly fans, they’ve been known to get nasty
When Joe must go, they’ll run him out of town
I saw Santa get hit by a snowball
And then get hit again when he was down

Me & you, we never booed Richie Allen - even if he did sometimes strike out
I was too young to read the papers - to know what all that booing was about
That big collapse of ‘64 was ugly - they blew a lead of 6 & 1/2 games with 12 to play
Some might say their fans were justifiably angry - World Series tickets printed up in vain

Philly fans, they’ve been known to get nasty
When Joe must go, they’ll run him out of town
I saw Santa get hit by a snowball
And then get hit again when he was down

This was before the days of the million dollar contracts - before the days of the artificial grass
He stood a bit outside the lines which made him fair game for those times - Richie Allen never kissed a white man’s ass
Me & you, we never booed Richie Allen - we’d pound our mitts & we’d yell, “We want a hit”
How could they call a guy a bum after he’d just hit a home run? That didn’t make any sense to a kid

Now I’ve since found out all these days later - now I know alot more than I did
And if back then you knew, Daddy, why all those other people booed...Thanks for letting me have my heroes as a kid

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from Letters In The Dirt, released February 1, 1996

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